Despite the greatest efforts of Bud Selig, the MLBPA and Major League Baseball owners, the book on performance-enhancing drug (PED) use within the sport won’t quite close. This past offseason gave us the now infamous positive-but-not-technically drug test of 2011 National League MVP Ryan Braun, who became the first player in the brief history of drug testing in MLB to successfully appeal a positive test. Baseball fans barely got a chance to put that fiasco behind them before the Roger Clemens perjury trial got under way, a two-year ordeal that ...
The New York Yankees are the hottest team in baseball. They have won 20 of their last 26 games, including an MLB-best 10-game winning streak along the way, and there have been no signs of them slowing down.The team has been greatly aided by a string of quality performances by the starting rotation. Under the lead of Andy Pettitte—yes, Pettitte, not staff ace C.C. Sabathia—the rest of the rotation has really stepped up their game. Ivan Nova is back on a winning streak, having won his last five starts with ...
Michael Pineda made an appearance in the New York Yankees' clubhouse a few days ago and gave the media a good idea as to how well his rehab is going.According to Erik Boland of Newsday, Pineda is doing just fine down in Tampa while he tries to recover from season-ending surgery."I'm feeling better," the 23-year-old righthander said Tuesday. "The doctors say everything is great."Pineda tore his right labrum after a tumultuous spring filled with weight problems and velocity issues, amongst other things. The writing was on the wall that something ...
The New York Yankees are still looking for starting pitching despite the recent success of their starting rotation and that could leave Phil Hughes the odd man out of the Bombers' rotation.According to Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports, the Yanks are now scouting Wandy Rodriguez of the Houston Astros. The team's scouts were present when Rodriguez took the mound in his last start against the Kansas City Royals.But this wasn't the only time rumors have linked the Yankees to potential available starters.Gordon Wittenmeyer of the Chicago Sun-Times linked the ...
In this year's first Subway Series two weeks ago, the Yankees capped their sweep of the Mets with a walk-off homer by Russell Martin.This time around, the series will end with a highly anticipated pitching matchup between CC Sabathia and R.A. Dickey.Let's take a look at matchups in all three games of this weekend's set at Citi Field. Friday, June 22: Andy Pettitte (3-2, 2.77 ERA) vs. Jon Niese (4-3, 3.82 ERA)This is a rematch of the Martin game that the Yanks won 5-4. In that contest, Niese out-dueled Pettitte, allowing ...
Let's just say the outfielder market is thinning by the day, and who knows what will be available. Baltimore locked up their center fielder Adam Jones for the next six years, the Dodgers extended Andre Ethier for the next five years. Will the Yankees do the same with Nick Swisher? The 31-year-old right fielder is set to hit the free-agency pool this upcoming offseason. Could this be his last season playing in the Bronx? In each of Swisher's previous three years in pinstripes, he's played in 150 games. This ...
Two weeks ago, the Yankees and Mets faced off in the first part of the Subway Series.The Yankees swept the series and took all three games at Yankee Stadium.Now, here we are, two weeks later and the two teams that play six miles away from each other will square off at Citi Field.The Yankees are 41-27 and come into the series in first place in the American League East with a 2.5 lead over the Baltimore Orioles.The Yankees had won 10 in a row before dropping two straight to the ...
Roger Clemens was found not guilty of lying to Congress. We’ve long been past the point where that means he didn’t do it in the court of public opinion.Our justice system has been built on the theory that it’s better to allow ten guilty men to be free than one innocent man go to jail. It’s supposed to be hard for the prosecution to prove the defendant did it. It’s tough to write this with the huge elephant right in front of my keys so let’s get it out of ...
The 2012 season has produced its fair share of storylines for the New York Yankees already, and we aren't even at the All-Star break yet. Whether good or bad, the media has already drawn its perceptions of the team and its players. Here's where the media has been getting it wrong with this year's version of the Bronx Bombers.Begin Slideshow
It seems like whenever a starting pitcher is on the trade market, the New York Yankees always find a way to be attached to the rumors.First, it was Matt Garza.Then, it was Ryan Dempster.Hey, they were even scouting free agent pitcher Ben Sheets.Now, according to Jon Paul Morosi of FOX Sports, we can add Houston Astros lefty Wandy Rodriguez to the list.Scouts from the Yankees were in attendance for his latest start against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night, a game that despite losing, he pitched well in.This is ...